will i be bottlenecked?

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adalos

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The only thing left for my new build is the graphics card, but I'm wondering if it's even worth going high end based on the rest of my system:

A64 3200 that is stable at 2.7ghz
DFI Lanparty SLI-DR
1 gb (2x512mb) of corsair XMS plat ram
120 gb western digital caviar SE - IDE 7200 (8mb)
19 inch LCD monitor with max 1280x1024 resolution

i play games that are very demanding (bf2, eq2, farcry, and beta test some upcoming RPGs that really push the envelope). but obviously i can't run it at higher than 1280 reso because of my monitor. is it worth getting an x1800 or x1900, or am i going to be bottlenecked by my processor/monitor?

i really wanted to get an opteron, but with the recent price jumps, it's just not feasible. the good thing is i can always upgrade to an opteron or other chip without replacing the motherboard. at what point does the GPU take over the majority of the load tho? will running these latest games at 1280 resolution be sufficient to take the pressure off the CPU and put it on the video card? will putting everything on max settings help?

i just don't want to waste 400-500 bucks on something that i'm not going to be able to really get performance out of.
 
Your cpu wont bottleneck you if you get a 7800gt or gtx or x1800xt. the x1900xt on the other hand...
 
i just don't know how much sense it makes to get a 512mb x1800 xt when the 1900xt isn't much more expensive.

newegg has the x1800 xt's for $480-520
and the x1900 xt's for $520-550

are the x1800 prices gonna come crashing down?
 
I would get the x1900xt there is nothing wrong with 1280/1024 with maxed out aa and af or get the x1800xt and put the rest toward a new monitor.
 
Since your CPU is running at 2.7Ghz, I dont think that it will create a bottleneck in your system. :cool: Even if you did get a 7800GTX 512 or a X1900XTX you should be fine.

I wish I had a CPU bottleneck :D :D
 
I don't understand why people keep saying that you'll be bottlenecked by a 3500+ or lower with an X1900XT. That makes no sense to me. Maybe if your gaming consists of running 3d mark and nothing else, then yes. Or if it really bothers you that someone with an FX60 is getting 120 fps at 1024x768 instead of your 90fps. As long as your CPU can keep up over 60 fps at 640x480 in any game, it doesn't matter what resolution you're pushing, your graphics card does all the work in pushing more pixels.

My 3200+ at stock can run ANY game out right now at way more than 60 fps if you put the resolution low enough, and pushing the resolution up higher won't do anything to your CPU load. WRT future games, who knows, but no sense speculating until they're out.

Adrian
 
asmielia said:
I don't understand why people keep saying that you'll be bottlenecked by a 3500+ or lower with an X1900XT. That makes no sense to me. Maybe if your gaming consists of running 3d mark and nothing else, then yes. Or if it really bothers you that someone with an FX60 is getting 120 fps at 1024x768 instead of your 90fps. As long as your CPU can keep up over 60 fps at 640x480 in any game, it doesn't matter what resolution you're pushing, your graphics card does all the work in pushing more pixels.

My 3200+ at stock can run ANY game out right now at way more than 60 fps if you put the resolution low enough, and pushing the resolution up higher won't do anything to your CPU load. WRT future games, who knows, but no sense speculating until they're out.

Adrian
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Yeah. The original posters CPU speeds are close to that of a FX-57. If an FX-57 is bottlenecked then we are all in trouble! :D
 
My understanding is that the higher the resolution, the more the GPU is a factor and the less the CPU is a bottleneck. So, in my case, at 1920X1200, the GPU will pretty much *always* be the bottleneck.

I may be mistaken about this, of course, but that's what I've gleaned.
 
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